230. Mutation (2)
I found a not-so-small gap and went inside to see where the smell was coming from. It might not be a normal person to get through, but it's not difficult for me. I don't know if it is affected by the Zhou scene, I pay attention to the direction of the air flow in my body. It was as if there was a real flow of air slowly flowing back through the veins, controlling the bones to contract as much as possible. Suddenly, I shifted my thoughts again, but I don't know why, I felt dizzy before, but then the abnormal reaction was gone, and it was just difficult to concentrate.
In the middle of my thoughts, I had already burrowed most of my body into the gap, and I was about to shrink my legs into it, when suddenly my feet sank, and my body was taken off. My heart was shocked, but I don't know when there was someone down there? The hand grabbed the uneven stalactite and instinctively kicked hard, but the hand that was wrapped around my ankle was like an iron claw, and I couldn't resist being pulled down, and my hand gradually disengaged.
After a pause, the person fell straight down, and the trend of falling down was stopped, I turned my head in a daze, I couldn't believe it, and blurted out: "Why did you come up?" I never expected that it was Gao Cheng who dragged me into the gap, because the bright red eyes in the dark and dark could not be more conspicuous, and they were all gloomy and cold, but I heard him burst out two words: "Don't." ”
I could hear the pain in that voice, was he telling me not to go up? But ...... "Did you smell this medicine and couldn't control it?" There's a lot of crevices and chips on it, and the smell is coming down from it, you know, I'm going to shrink my bones, I can drill through it, and I can help you destroy it if I find the source. ”
Gao Cheng shook his head, and the crazy flames in his red eyes seemed to erupt out, and he held my back collar in one hand and followed the vines to slide, only to slide down a stack of vines and I grabbed the vines tightly with both hands, and finally climbed here without falling short. But as soon as his hand touched it, the pain of the needle prick did not enter the palm of his hand, and he suddenly thought of Gao Cheng, and touched it with his free hand, he really grasped it with his bare hands, so every thorn of the vine that came from his way pierced his hand.
Before I could think about it, his mouth hissed, and my body was thrown out of the direction of the river. He knew in his heart that he couldn't control it, and even at this moment he was still trying to protect me as much as he could. But I instinctively reach out and wave in the air as my body flies out, and as soon as I touch something, I intuitively grasp it, it's still a vine. My hand was numb from being stabbed, and I only grabbed it and choked the momentum of my body falling, but at the same time there was a loud thud on the surface of the water in my ears, and I was stunned, and I thought of something and shouted: "Gao Cheng? ”
I was answered by a howl from below: "Ahhh "Gao Cheng, are you okay?" I asked in a panic, and was about to let go and jump down when I suddenly heard a broken word from below: "You ...... Come on, don't go up. ”
I paused, and suddenly it dawned on me that he didn't fall, but jumped. Just when he thought he would fall into the water if he threw me away, he wanted to go back into the icy water again to curb his madness, and probably wanted to send me ashore. I gritted my teeth, ignored him, and grabbed the vines to climb up again.
Listening to his painful and suppressed screams and ignore them is a deeper torture to me. But I told myself over and over again that I couldn't turn back, that the answer was on top, and the root was on it.
I found a gap enough for me to get into again, and just as I was climbing deeper and deeper, a sentence overflowed from a sudden frenzied roar: "Little bamboo, having my breath in your body is equivalent to a second me, you will be like me, don't go." ”
What did he say? Am I the second him?
I continued to crawl into the gap after a pause, and said word by word: "If this is the case, then let us have hell to run rampant together." "If this is the final arrangement of fate for me, then I accept it and truly empathize with your pain.
Leave behind the roars that make me feel so sad and tell yourself: If you are far away, you will not be heard.
The dark and narrow space is gloomy and terrifying. These are stalactites that have been corroded for millions of years and form cracks of different sizes, so sometimes the cracks are very large, and sometimes they are so small that they must be broken with bare hands, but fortunately they are seriously corroded, and the stones are easy to be broken off. Occasionally, there are cracks that communicate with the bottom during the crawl, and the water vapor is particularly obvious, and when I look down, the hole is black, and I feel that the still river in the darkness is like a swallowing everything, waiting for the prey to fall into its mouth at any time.
Suddenly, I felt a shudder, in addition to the yin wind blowing, there was also a thought that suddenly gave birth to my heart. I feel that I am really small compared to this complicated and ancient stalactites and still rivers, like a grain of sand in the world, and someone may have stepped into this place a long time ago, and that person will not see much difference than now. These stones, this river of silence hidden in the shadows, are silently watching the people coming and going. No matter the change of years or the change of dynasty outside, people are destroyed, but they are forever immortal, with such a "resolute" existence to prove that the eternal remains unchanged.
But no one knows what a terrible thing eternity is.
Thinking of this, my heart suddenly jumped, this sentence ...... Why is it so familiar? In the abyss-like unknown memory, it seems to ...... Someone said that to me. And why am I so emotionally charged at this moment?
The mind was diverted again...... Uncontrollable, the only thing that can gather his mind is to think about returning to Gao Cheng again, and his previous words are hovering in his mind. I'm the second him, and I'm going to go crazy like him. That's what he meant, so I can interpret that he was able to temporarily stifle his madness when he smelled me, was it because it was the equivalent of two of him resisting? Then I drank Zhou Jing's medicinal porridge, and I actually already had the medicinal properties of the Hell Demon Star in my body, so I was actually following the same path as him?
But fortunately, except that I couldn't control the operation of my brain, it didn't seem to be on the verge or crazy, but the air flow in my body became more and more smooth, making me comfortable between shrinking my bones and drilling and crawling.
As long as the road has an end, and at the end of this dark space there is a square orifice that I can drill into after shrinking my bones, and light and shadow sweep in from above. I held my breath and straightened up, crept into the light and looked out, and couldn't help but be surprised. I thought that at most I would see a space similar to a cave, but I didn't think about it, but I saw an inner room that could be called an ancient building. The floor tiles and walls are made of white stone, with carved columns and intricate shapes and carvings.
I suspect that I was too deeply disturbed by the smell of the hellish demon star, and thus hallucinated.
I was not sure if I was in a real or illusory place at this time, but I saw that it was a pool of about ten square meters, and the white mist in the pool rose, and a strong smell penetrated the bottom of my nose, and the ghosts in front of me were repeated.
I shook my head, and my vision was clear, and it turned out that the pool was the source of the Hell Demon Star medicine. The strange thing is that it doesn't spread around it, but it all rushes towards me like a direct current. Because it was four or five meters away, the white mist turned into water vapor when it reached the door in front of me, and it carried that strange fragrance. The smell is derived from the pool, wafting in from the square mouth where I am peeping now, through the various gaps in the stalactite layer and into the space of the still river below.
But the question is, if this pool has been like this all this time, it must have been smelling under the cloth for a long time, so why did we smell it after we had been in it for a while? The answer soon came, and I heard footsteps, staggering.
Subconsciously hid short, listened to the step and paused when it reached a short distance, and waited for a long time without any movement, and I quietly raised my head to look. I couldn't help but be stunned, it was ...... Zhou Jing?
What a shock! However, a day later, the sturdy old man who originally looked like he was in his seventies with a red face suddenly became abnormally old, and this kind of old age could be seen by the eyes. The red light was gone, the wrinkles were all over the place, his face was dull, and even his back was arched.
He was standing beside the pool, staring deeply at the rising white mist. Ben was still wondering why he was here, but suddenly the other party's eyes swept towards me, and I was caught off guard. But I'm glad this light mouth is no bigger than a fist, so it won't be so easy for him to find out that I'm hiding here. But as he walked slowly towards this place, my heart was still tense, wondering if he had really seen me. Secretly calculating the odds of winning a fight with this old man.
Even though he is old at the moment, it can be seen from his previous gloomy behavior that he is not simple. Just thinking about it, I suddenly saw Zhou Jing kneeling down two meters away from me, and bowed to the ground. Watching this scene I was stunned on the spot, what does this mean? Zhou Jing knocked on the ground and whispered in his ears: "...... Pray, no matter how strong the external forces are, I will swear to defend and never let our Huang clan be lost in my hands. ”
He raised his head and bowed down, and every time he kowtowed to the end, he would murmur a sentence in his mouth, the first two words were always inaudible, only the last two words were "prayer", and after kowtowing three times, he stood up tremblingly.
I didn't sigh much, and my heart said that this etiquette was big enough, and if he knew that I was right in front of him, he would be mad. But why did he kowtow in my direction? Faith?
I have heard someone call the old woman the chief before, and the relationship between the old woman and Zhou Jing is obvious to all, and Zhou Jing also vaguely mentioned his mysterious family, I am afraid that these people are from a certain tribe. There are some weird beliefs in that, similar to the legend that the direction represents the location of the god. Just thinking to himself, he suddenly caught a glimpse of Zhou Jing walking to the pool, raising his hand and spilling something.
At this time, I found that the white mist in the pool had become almost nonexistent just now, and after Zhou Jing spilled the powder, the white mist rose again in an instant. Finally had an epiphany, and the previous doubts had an answer, it turned out that Zhou Jing had sprinkled the Hell Demon Star in the pool, causing the smell to waft out.
Zhou Jing turned around and walked to the side to the horizon where I couldn't see, and then a deep voice came: "It won't be long before you can go find him and bring him back." ”<